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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Canada to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and address the Canadian parliament in Ottawa, Trudeau’s office said in a statement late on Thursday, after Zelenskiy’s US visit wrapped up. “The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, will visit Canada, from September 21 to 22, 2023,” Trudeau’s office said. Zelenskiy was in Washington on Thursday where he…

King Charles III on Thursday said France and the UK should team up on a new pact to battle the climate emergency, as he hailed the “indispensable” cross-Channel partnership in a rapturously received speech at the French Senate. Charles won a standing ovation from lawmakers after deftly mixing English and French as well as personal and political reflections in his speech, the highlight on day two of his three-day…

File picture of Dhara Shah, whose baby girl Ariha, has been living in a foster care in Berlin for over 20 months, during a demonstration requesting German authorities to allow her daughter to celebrate the Independence Day with Indian community in Germany, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi | Photo Credit: PTI Indian diplomats in Germany received a “consular visit” last month with ‘Baby Ariha Shah’, the two-year-old child…

Express News Service NEW DELHI: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, on the sidelines of the UNGA, in New York said that he had a direct and frank conversation, with the Prime Minister (Modi), in which I shared my concerns in no uncertain terms… “We call upon the government of India to take seriously this matter and to work with us to shed full transparency and ensure accountability and justice in…

WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned to Washington on Thursday for a whirlwind one-day visit, this time facing the Republicans now questioning the flow of American dollars that for 19 months has helped keep his troops in the fight against Russian forces. Zelenskyy arrived at the Capitol to talk privately with Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate as the world is watching Western support for Kyiv.…

With diplomatic ties between India and Canada reaching a new low after Justin Trudeau’s claims of “potential link between agents of Indian government” and Khalistani terror group chief Hardeep Singh’s Nijjar’s death, top government sources told News18 that during Trudeau and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting on the sidelines of the recent G20 Summit in New Delhi, the latter had raised the serious issue of terror activities in the…

By PTI TORONTO: Amid a diplomatic row between India and Canada, an Indo-Canadian lawmaker from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party has expressed dismay at the “glorification of terrorism” and hate crime targeting Hindus in Canada in the name of “freedom of expression”. The sharp reaction from Chandra Arya, who represents the riding of Nepean in the House of Commons of Canada, came as extremist elements backed by a leader of…

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol. | Photo Credit: Reuters South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol sounded a warning to fellow world leaders on September 21 about the recent communication and possible cooperation between North Korea and Russia, saying any action by a permanent U.N. Security Council member to circumvent international norms would be dangerous and “paradoxical.” Speaking before the U.N. General Assembly, Yoon Suk Yeol invoked North Korean…

BEIJING: Beijing’s top diplomat told President Vladimir Putin that China and Russia must work to strengthen cooperation in the face of a “complex international situation”, Chinese state media reported Thursday.Speaking at a meeting with Putin in Saint Petersburg at which the Russian leader accepted an invitation to visit China next month, Wang Yi said the “world is rapidly moving toward multipolarity”.“Economic globalization is progressing against headwinds, unilateral actions are…

Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen said one of the major milestones has been his country joining the Make in India initiative. (Image: AFP) Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen said the scope for trade opportunities between India and his country was huge and there is a strong desire to finalise an FTA that will further strengthen bilateral economic ties Describing India-Israel defence ties as a key pillar of their growing…

Gunmen hold weapons during the funeral of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli raid in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 20,2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank and unrest in the Gaza Strip have killed six Palestinians, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, the latest spike in a wave of violence that has roiled the region for more than a year.…

By AFP UNITED NATIONS: The United States on Wednesday announced $225 million in investments to support emerging democracies in the face of a rise in autocracies around the world. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), were to announce the assistance at an event Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. A major part of the package…

BUCHAREST: The crew of a Togo-flagged general cargo ship bound for one of Ukraine’s Danube river ports were evacuated early on Wednesday after an explosion on board near the Romanian port of Sulina, Romanian officials said. The Seama ship reported an explosion early on Wednesday and requested the evacuation of the 12-person crew near Sulina, where the Danube flows into the Black Sea. “At the moment the causes ……

Curated By: Shankhyaneel Sarkar Last Updated: September 20, 2023, 17:18 IST Washington D.C., United States of America (USA) SEC and federal prosecutors investigate perks Musk received from Tesla, Autopilot tech and Project 42. (Image: Reuters/Representative) The US federal prosecutors scrutinize if there were any personal benefits from Tesla to Elon Musk, “Project 42” and mention grand jury involvement. The US federal prosecutors looking at personal benefits Tesla, SpaceX and…

By AFP TEHRAN: Iranian lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday to toughen penalties for women who flout the Islamic dress code, with jail terms of up to 10 years, state media reported. The assembly approved “the ‘Support for the Culture of Hijab and Chastity’ bill for a trial period of three years,” the official IRNA news agency reported. The bill still requires approval by the Guardian Council. Women in…

Last year, a Dutch intelligence agency said it had foiled a sophisticated attempt by a Russian spy using a false Brazilian identity. (File) | Photo Credit: REUTERS The International Criminal Court said Tuesday that it detected “anomalous activity affecting its information systems” last week and took urgent measures to respond. It didn’t elaborate on what it called a “cybersecurity incident.” Court spokesman Fadi El Abdallah said in a written…

American and Saudi officials are discussing terms of a mutual defence treaty that would resemble the robust military pacts that the US has with its close allies Japan and South Korea, a central component in President Biden’s high-stakes diplomacy to get Saudi Arabia to normalise relations with Israel, according to US officials. Under such an agreement, the US and Saudi Arabia would generally pledge to provide military support if…

At least nine separatist organisations supporting terror groups have their bases in Canada and despite multiple deportation requests Ottawa has taken no action against those involved in heinous crimes including the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, officials here said on Tuesday. They said that pro-Khalistani outfits such as the World Sikh Organization (WSO), Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) working…